The pictures below are from Rodney Shaw's collection. The photo
below shows the annual outing from a Fence or Woodhouse Mill chapel
by wagon
cart to Roche Abbey (where the photograph was taken). Rodney dates
it at circa 1895-1905.

The ball below is not a prop football in a publicity stunt.
Apparantly, during the depression era or 1930-38 a craze swept the
land called Pushball. According to one online enclycolpedia
"PUSHBALL, a game played by two sides on a field usually 140
yds. long and 50 yds. wide, with a ball 6 ft. in diameter and 50 lb
in weight. The sides usually number eleven each, there being five
forwards, two left-wings, two right-wings and two goal-keepers. The
goals consist of two upright posts 18 ft. high and 20 ft.
apart. (see http://17.1911encyclopedia.org/P/PU/PUSHBALL.htm). The
team below is the Fence pushball team and as you may be able to
guess, this tournement was sponsored by the Daily Mail newspaper
(good value sponsorship really - it's still being read 70 years
later!). Funnily enough, the game never really took off.